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The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male (as legally defined by Executive Order 14168) U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft).
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
The previous iteration of the Selective Service System was established by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. After two extensions, the Selective Training and Service Act was allowed to expire on March 31, 1947. In 1948, it was replaced by a new and distinct Selective Service System established by this Act.
The Selective Service is the federal agency tasked with overseeing a national database of US male citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 who could be subject to the draft should it be necessary.
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, [1] was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. This Selective Service Act required that men who had reached their 21st birthday but had not yet reached their 36th birthday ...
National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System was a court case that was first decided in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on February 22, 2019, declaring that requiring men but disallowing women to register for the draft for military service in the United States was unconstitutional.
The Selective Service System did not respond to The Post’s request for comment. The reposted tweet remained on the SSS’s X account for over an hour, even after it was flagged by a CBS News ...
The Vietnam War draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam War in 1970. It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service in the US since 1942, and established the ...